Planet Biometrics reports: Plans by Western Australian high schools to use fingerprint and other biometric authentication methods for library loaning and attendance have been criticised by privacy advocates. Churchlands Senior High School plans to install biometrics finger scanning for library book withdrawals this year and Byford Secondary College and Atwell College have used biometrics to…
Category: Youth & Schools
Maryland universities to use data to predict student success — or failure
Carrie Wells reports: Officials at the University System of Maryland have begun to analyze student data — grades, financial aid information, demographics, even how often they swipe their ID cards at the library or the dining hall — to find undergraduates who are at risk of dropping out. Law enforcement agencies, political campaigns, retailers and other universities…
States race to protect student data
Nice recap by Sarah Breitenbach: … In 2014, 21 states passed 26 student data laws mostly targeted at states and school districts. Many echoed a 2013 Oklahoma law that requires state approval to release student data and mandates that only aggregated data — no data tied to individual students — can be released. By last year, lawmakers had shifted…
NYS legislature considers two student data privacy bills
Sheila Kaplan has been advocating for an “opt-out” law to protect student privacy for a decade now. Could NYS finally be on the brink of passing one? There are two bills currently in the New York legislature that will be of interest to student privacy advocates in New York. And in other student-privacy related news, NYS is…